Title:SCENES ON 30TH CORPS' SECTOR OF 2ND ARMY'S FRONT IN NORMANDY [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 120-5
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Summary:
Description: A burial service is held in a field outside the village of Roucamps for gunners of the 90th Field Regiment RA killed in the fighting for Mont Pincon. Sherman tanks from the 8th Armoured Brigade (13/18th Hussars or 4/7th Dragoon Guards) and men and transport from possibly both the 43rd and 50th Divisions are seen travelling along lanes in enclosed 'bocage' country and through rolling countryside to the south and east of Mont Pincon reminiscent of parts of the Berkshire Downs. One of the more unusual vehicles seen in this film is a French-manufactured Unic-Kegresse half-track taken by the German army from material captured in 1940 and converted into an APC; it appears to be in the hands of the 5th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment. Armour moving up to the front around St Pierre la Vielle (?) raised billowing clouds of dust in a manner familiar to veterans of the western desert campaign now serving in Normandy.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Covey (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Div 43 (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Armoured, 8 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 30 (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, French - halftrack: Unic-Kegresse halftrack (object name)
Operation Bluecoat, Mont Pinçon 1944, North West Europe, Second World War (event)
Mont Pinçon, Calvados, France (geography)
